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Scream

Synopsis

Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far.

A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

A small-sleepy town gets woke-the-fuck-up by a Ghostface killa, and everyone is a fuckin' suspect. Jiffy Pop on the stove. A fuckin' killer on the phone. A shocking beginning that you never see coming. Neve before her Wild-Things-threesome. An edited-for-television relationship. A severe case of blue-balls. The slutty and busty best-friend. Crazy-as-fuck Stu. Randy works at a video-rental-store and has never been laid. Skeet before Jericho doing his best Johnny Depp impersonation. Deputy fuckin' Dewey. A cougar-tabloid-twit reporter that I would be friends with. A fat-fuck cameraman who loves Cheetos. A scary-staircase chase. High-tech 911. A big-ass cellular phone. Fingering the wrong guy again. A Ray Donovan cameo. Fonzie's last shark-jump. Richard Gere loves gerbils. Who the fuck is Wes…

"No you listen to me you little bitch! You hang up on me again and I'll gut you like a fish!"

I was 10 when this first came out and I love horror even more back then, than I do now, so it was a bloody gem for me when it first came out. I remember watching it over and over again and never getting sick of it and years on, I still love it. Oddly, I hadn't seen it in about 5 years, the last time I watched it, was to show a good friend of mine, who hates horrors and the same happened again when I made another friend watch it. Its so cool sitting and watching, out…

Ohhhh how Scream is one of the guiltiest of all indulgences. Wes Craven delivered what is essentially a satirical, violent, and hip post modern horror film that almost plays out like a big bloody episode of Scooby-Doo... There are no Spooky Space Kooks or Miner Forty-Niners. The characters that populate the fictional town of Woodsboro are entirely real and they live beyond the run-time of the movie. The old stories, history of the town, and overbearing nostalgic feeling make this a town that will always welcome us in and make our stay comfy. Despite people hanging from trees with their intestines hanging out, of course.…

Scream: a horror movie that defined a generation, for better or worse. I've heard people consider Wes Craven's post-modern opus to be the best slasher film since the original Halloween. While that's a claim I can't instantly agree with, Scream certainly is and has become one of the most influential and bankable franchises in the horror genre.

Back in the 90's, almost everyone fell in love with Scream. We hadn't seen anything like it before. Most people went in expecting another by the numbers slasher movie. Drew Barrymore was making her comeback in Hollywood and ads and trailers implied she was the main star, setting up a brief plot twist that echoes back to the original Nightmare on Elm Street.…

I was still in high school in 1996. I went to the theatre to see Scream with a group of friends, some of whom were already seeing it for the second time.

I was definitely not as into film then as I am now. But it looked scary and fun, and my favorite actress just happened to have a big starring role - or so I thought - so I just had to check it out. (If you have not seen the film, or the multiple parodies, you should stop reading here.)

It doesn't matter if you like or dislike this movie. Whatever your opinion is it's still the movie that resurrected the slasher movie genre and made people excited to see horror movies again. But why did it get so much attention? And why was it this movie that saved the genre and not the other 90s flicks that came out before? Well, there's a number of reasons and i'm going to try to point out the majority of them.

1- This movie was obviously made by people with a huge respect for the genre. Usually when people try to make parody-ish movies of a specific genre they fail because they are so concerned with being able to try to make…

"No you listen to me you little bitch! You hang up on me again and I'll gut you like a fish!"

I was 10 when this first came out and I love horror even more back then, than I do now, so it was a bloody gem for me when it first came out. I remember watching it over and over again and never getting sick of it and years on, I still love it. Oddly, I hadn't seen it in about 5 years, the last time I watched it, was to show a good friend of mine, who hates horrors and the same happened again when I made another friend watch it. Its so cool sitting and watching, out…

It plays the whodunit game too soon, and expects the self-conscious introduction/accusations/dispatching of various suspects to make up for its bright, shadowless scares. But that problem runs deeper than its postmodern "rules," which are by turn stubbornly followed and violated. It doesn't have much ambition to deconstruct the genre--Craven, more than anyone, knows that he's not one to make any kind of straight rip of Halloween, postmodern or no. So why include stuff like the acoustic cover of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"? I think he saw Williamson's script as a challenge, the representative of a world that went out of its way to misunderstand Pulp Fiction. ("I just made New Nightmare," he seems to say with his superfluous cameo as "Fred.") So his veteran's response to the chattering teen stupidity adds an unnecessary layer of cruelty to the big murder scenes: a nauseous cocktail of self-awareness and disembowelment.

This is one great reedition of the 80's slashers. It's still fresh and original after almost two decades of its release. I hadn't watched this in a long time, not since I was still a child (yes, thank you mom and dad), and while I still find it to work as a horror movie, today I can also enjoy the pop culture references and the horror movie universe satire as well. What to say about little gems Wes Craven planted throughout the film for us? Like a little cameo by Linda Blair you'll miss with the blink of an eye, Tatum's "Wes Carpenter", the janitor from the school who looks a little like Freddy Krueger and the most special: "Jesus…

This is not the greatest horror film of all time, not by a long shot, but it is by far the most watchable for me. I've seen this maybe 15 times and I'll probably see it 15 more before I'm done. You know you've lost the ability to be objective when even the flaws you notice are more endearing than anything else.

In this viewing, the fact that every person in this world is the most insensitive person ever towards Sydney and her oh-so selfish dead mommy issues felt like a running joke. Almost every scene she's in has someone not at all understanding why she's so upset at all these brutal murders. It's surreal.

David Arquette though, still one of the greatest supporting characters in horror history. Team Dewey forever. A+